It is really a very good idea for you and your students to create and maintain a classroom web page. Here, are top ten reasons why a teacher should create a classroom webpage. Creating a webpage for your own classroom is not a very difficult task as you might really think. If you do not [...]

Simulations and games activities can be most useful as teaching tools. Indeed, they provide a variety of learning opportunities in the classroom. Such activities can create interest and relieve tension in difficult curriculum areas. Furthermore, students often find simulations and games fun.
Simulation is the presenting of an artificial situation or event that represents the reality [...]

The Creative Classroom
When visitors enter a creative teacher’s classroom they are not only impressed with the colourfulness, vibrancy, attention to detail (clear labeling, crisp borders, thoughtful range of questions) and the quality of the work that the pupils have achieved, but also with the ability of pupils to stay focused on their work. The wallboards [...]

1. The first thing to remember is that you are the boss.
Self belief is incredibly important in this job. You can’t expect pupils to respond positively to you unless you believe, really believe, that you fully deserve their respect and compliance. The thought that you are the leader in the classroom must be at the [...]

Student motivation, especially intrinsic motivation (the motivation that comes from within ones self), is a critical part of the education process. Motivation is a necessity so that learning becomes a continuing, improving, interesting and hopefully enjoyable process
A teacher, must develop and encourage classroom motivation, i.e. think of and find ways to motivate students to reach [...]

Whole Brain Teaching: Kindergarten (Expanded!)

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1. Attention Seeking Behaviour
 

Tactical ignoring (balanced out with lots of proximity praise)

Get up close – move into their space and run the lesson from this position for a while

Remain very calm and avoid getting wound up and rewarding the behaviour with negative attention

Agree non-verbal cues in advance with known trouble-makers

2. Swearing/verbal abuse
 

Have rules [...]